Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Center

4 Helpful Tips for Making the Case for Your ESG Program By: Bob Martineau and Philip McGowan, Finn Partners Southeast  If you are like most professional communicators working in a corporate environment, you’re aware of a new operating standard that has taken traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to a higher level—ESG, or environment, social, [...]

Sustainable Business Job Search Resources By Katie Kross, Managing Director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Are you interested in incorporating sustainability into your career? Check out this new slide deck of resources for students and job [...]

The Bruce Wayne/Batman Paradox and the Rise of ESG By: John Friedman, Manager, Sustainability for WGL, and Amanda Ponzar, CHC The lesson traditionalists learned from the Great Depression was take any job, even one that is 'beneath you' to make ends meet. Many in today's generation follow a different mindset and only consider jobs that [...]

The Road Ahead: Trends in Corporate Social Impact in 2021 and Beyond By: Amirah Ahmad, PYXERA Global Reprinted with permission (original source) The 9th Global Pro Bono State of the Practice Report Business is Relied Upon for Societal ChangeBusiness leaders carry the power and responsibility to champion societal change. According to the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer Report, COVID-19 “accelerated the [...]

6 Actions Brands Can Take to Get Beyond Virtue Signaling for Positive Social Change Jerome Tennille, Manager of Volunteerism for Marriott International We’re roughly a year beyond what I’ll call a “corporate awakening” since the death of George Floyd. I’ve been observing the corporate response, and what I’ve noticed is that there’s a spectrum of [...]

Doubling down on accessibility: Microsoft’s next steps to expand accessibility in technology, the workforce and workplace - The Official Microsoft Blog By: Brad Smith, Microsoft President More than 1 billion people around the world live with a disability, and at some point, most of us likely will face some type of temporary, situational or permanent disability. [...]

Travel as a Driver of Job Opportunity and Empowerment for Youth: Stalled, But Not for Long By: Niki Zoli, Consultant for AlphaSights and Third Bridge Group Limited “Over the last decades, tourism has become one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economic sectors in the world…Tourism contributes to job creation both directly and [...]

Nasdaq and Mentor Makers Support Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs By: Tanya C. Smigocki, Senior Advisor, Corporate Responsibility at Nasdaq   Mentor Makers is a movement to inspire great business leaders, from traditional and non-traditional backgrounds, and give them the tools they need to be exceptional mentors to entrepreneurs across all races, industries, geographies. Through a [...]

The Imperative of Improving Equity in Education Through Corporate Support By: Marla Wilson, Executive Director, STEM Careers Coalition of Discovery Education  - We are all too familiar with the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our everyday life. Looking specifically at education, we know that since the beginning of the pandemic, over 90% [...]

5 Big Ideas By: Jessica Marati Radparvar, Founder and Social Impact Strategist of Reconsidered 2020 was quite the year.  But was it a year to be “cancelled”, cast aside as the world rushes back to normalcy? Or a year of transformation – “the year that changed it all”? There were the lives lost, upended [...]